The Moon's month and the year round the Sun, sentence 10
The Moon spins once in the same time it takes to go round the Earth, so the same face always looks at us, like a dancer turning to keep facing a partner.
Who acts: Moon, it, same face, dancer · What happens: spin, take, go, look, turn, keep · To what, where: same time, Earth, partner
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon's month and the year round the Sun» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, it, same face, dancer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spins | nsubj |
| 3 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 spins | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spins | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 takes | nsubj |
| 10 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 takes | advcl |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Earth | det |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looks | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 looks | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 face | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 face | amod |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looks | nsubj |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 looks | advmod |
| 22 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spins | parataxis |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 looks | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dancer | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 dancer | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dancer | det |
| 28 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looks | obl |
| 29 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 dancer | acl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 keep | mark |
| 31 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 turning | advcl |
| 32 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 keep | xcomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 partner | det |
| 34 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 facing | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | the Moon | time | once property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | present | it | the same time not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the Earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | look | present | the same face | at us; like a dancer; always property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme | ||||
| 5 | turn | gerund | a dancer not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | a dancer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | face | gerund | a dancer not said here | a partner | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme partner=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:119-moon-month-and-year.lesson:10.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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